Q 01/05

Six-year-old Ruby Bridges saw the shouting crowd outside her new school in 1960 and assumed it was what?

A) A football rally

B) Mardi Gras

C) A funeral march

D) An election rally

Answer · why

B) Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras was her guess because people were throwing things and shouting, as New Orleans crowds do at carnival. Nobody had told her the anger was aim...

Q 02/05

Which American artist painted Ruby Bridges's walk to school in 1960 as The Problem We All Live With?

A) Norman Rockwell

B) Thomas Hart Benton

C) Jacob Lawrence

D) Edward Hopper

Answer · why

A) Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell had just ended his long run at The Saturday Evening Post, frustrated by the limits it placed on political themes.

Q 03/05

Which federal officers walked Ruby Bridges past the protesters and into her New Orleans school each day in 1960?

A) FBI agents

B) National Guardsmen

C) US Marshals

D) Army paratroopers

Answer · why

C) US Marshals

US Marshals drove her the five blocks to school, then walked two in front of her and two behind. One later recalled that she never cried and marched l...

Q 04/05

To whom did young Ruby Bridges write a letter asking that her dad, fired over her schooling, get his job back?

A) President Eisenhower

B) The school board

C) Her new teacher

D) Santa Claus

Answer · why

D) Santa Claus

Santa Claus got the request because she felt partly to blame for the firing. The family was living on donations while her dad stayed out of work.

Q 05/05

What did one protester hold up inside a small coffin outside Ruby Bridges's New Orleans school in 1960?

A) A black doll

B) A torn schoolbook

C) A child's dress

D) A dead blackbird

Answer · why

A) A black doll

A black doll in a coffin was waved at her morning after morning. She later said she had nightmares of the coffin flying around her bedroom.